>This was passed on to me and I wanted to share it with the list:
>
> ><< PLEASE CHECK YOUR YARDS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> >I write to you with a very heavy heart as we lost our beautiful Rory
> >(Ch
> >Rivermist Wrap'd In Rainbows) on Friday night. She was 20 months
> >old, and
> >was planning to leave next week to stay with Robin Cameron to work on
> >her
> >Canadian championship before a US specials career.
> >
> >Thursday morning, I let Rory in the yard while I packed the van for a
> >dog
> >show -- she was unattended in our yard for less than a 1/2 hour. We
> >are VERY
> >careful about the yard and what is in it. I left at 9 AM and she was
> >bouncing around, happy and just fine. My husband came home from work
> >that evening to find Rory in shock in her crate.
> >
> >She was taken to the emergency clinic and put in critical care. My
> >vet went with her and sat by her side through very nearly the entire
> >ordeal. Rory ate a mushroom in our yard. It was white with a red
> >inside and has been taken off to the lab in Michigan for analysis.
> >When I have a name for it, I will be sure to let you know.
> >
> >When I tell you that EVERYTHING was done for her, please rest assured
> >that
> >everything under the sun was done for this dog. This is my
> >profession, these are my friends... and they walked to the end of
> >the earth for Rory and it was not enough to save her. After 2 days
> >and nights of very intensive medical work-ups, Rory's heart stopped
> >beating and she could not be resuscitated. I never said good bye to
> >her and I never knew that leaving for that dog show without her was
> >the last time I would ever see her. She was the
> >absolute joy in my life.
> >
> >Watch your yards for mushrooms! They pop up overnight. Here's some
> >symptoms
> >that you have a problem... and I can tell you that by the time there
> >are symptoms, it is too late to be corrected.... dialated, fixed
> >pupils, depressed respirations and heart rate, sub-normal body
> >temperature, and decreased blood glucose. If you see your dog eat a
> >mushroom - induce vomiting immediately. Use a tablespoon of hydrogen
> >peroxide and GET IT OUT OF YOUR DOG'S SYSTEM. It could save her
> >life.
> >
> >We are still entirely grief-stricken over the loss of our Rory.
> >Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to share this with you. I
> >can only imagine how long it will take to heal our hearts.
> >
> >Update:
> >
> >Just spent the day at the Plant Pathology lab at Rutger's State Univ
> >with Dr James White, a mycologist. Between Dr White, poison control,
> >and the Toxicology Lab at the Univ of Pennsylvania, we have all the
> >information we can get about Rory's death.
> >
> >The name of the mushroom she ate is called "DESTROYING ANGEL"
> >(amanita
> >virosa). How befitting the name is this is what it did to our lives.
> >They thrive on roots of oak trees and therefore I need to tell you
> >that ANY white mushroom located near an oak tree is suspect to be a
> >variety of the very highly toxic Amanita variety of mushrooms. Dr
> >White informed me that this mushroom kills adults - a 3x3" mushroom!
> >He only has one other reported care with a dog - a lab ret and the
> >outcome was the same as Rory's. Life expectancy
> >for an adult is 3-4 days after consuming the mushroom. It is shorter
> >in children or pets (in Rory's case, 2 1/2 days) because of their
> >small size.
> >
> >characteristics:
> >mushroom is all white -- white top, white stem, white "gills"
> >underneath" has a "crumbly" texture -- fragile and may fall apart in
> >your hands mature mushrooms have a flat, round cap that is 2-3 inches
> >wide mushrooms is 2-4 inches tall
> >immature -- still deadly - mushrooms have a more "ball" appearance to
> >the cap
> >the stem tapers to a fat base will be found near oak tree or roots of
> >an oak tree
> >cannot be irradicated with commercial fungicides.
> >
> >I have some hopes for this knowledge as well as aspirations for Rory.
> >I hope you will take this information, cross post it, and pass it on.
> >I hope that she has died so that others may live. Maybe the life she
> >has saved will even be my son, who is as apt to put something in his
> >mouth as any dog would be. I hope that you will all remember how
> >very special she was. I have scanned pics of the mushroom if anyone
> >wants them, just email me and I will send
> >them privately.
> >
>**********************************************************************
Karen. B. Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Natural Holistic Pet Care Taras Cavaliers
751 N.E. 168 Street North Miami Beach, FL 33162
305-652-5372 (Voice) 305-653-7244 (Fax)
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